my wonderful zoo

Chapter 125
After finishing the busy business, Chen Xun thought about going out for a walk.

I have been in Guangzhou City for such a long time and I have always been busy. I rush in and out of the city very quickly. I have never wandered around the streets of Guangzhou City.

In this era, Guangzhou already has a hint of its future maritime trade hub style. Products from Southeast Asia can basically be found in Guangzhou city, which is very rich.

Just as he was about to go out, he heard the guard report: "Steward Ge is here to report on the work."

It seemed that the idea of ​​"shopping" was in vain again. Chen Xun sighed inwardly and had no choice but to sit back in the office chair and wait for Chang Ge to come in.

"Captain, long time no see." After entering the door, Chang Ge was not restrained and directly found a chair closest to Chen Xun's desk and sat down.

"Long time no see. Seeing your mental state, what's going on?" Chen Xun asked.

Ge Chang's demeanor is indeed different. Compared with before, he is more high-spirited.

"What good things I can do are all because the military government has developed well, and I feel happy." Ge Chang said with a smile.

Chen Xun can understand this.

Previously, no matter how rich Chenjiazhuang was, it was still Chen Xun's private property, and they could only be regarded as Chen Xun's "household servants."

Now that the uprising has officially started and a military government has been established to manage civil affairs, it means that Chenjiazhuang has officially upgraded.

These "old servants" also have room for further development.

And with the expansion of the military government, their future development will become even broader.

All of this, as the career of the military government flourishes, is placed in front of the officials.

Everyone has something to look forward to, and it will naturally be different from before.

I didn't see that Liu Yu's current position is no different from Song Ting's "Zhizhou".

This can be regarded as an example to the managers of Chenjiazhuang.

"What's the matter with coming back this time? Isn't it just to report on work?" Chen Xun asked.

For reporting work, paper reports can be completed completely.

After more than ten years of development, Chenjiazhuang has formed a mature and complete reporting model. It is this model that allows Chen Xun to maintain the management of dozens of overseas trading sub-stations, without the need for the person in charge to come back and report in person.

"The reporting is part of the work. I mainly want to have a heart-to-heart talk with you." Ge Chang, who used to have a serious face in the past, has now become more talkative.

A man must have a career. Once he has a career, his energy and spirit will immediately change.

"Tell me." Chen Xun casually opened the report presented by Ge Chang, intending to read and listen to what Ge Chang said.

"... As of the end of August, Chen's trade statistics have reached the scale of last year. It is expected that this year's total trade will increase by at least [-]% compared to last year. ..."

"This increase is the lowest in five years."

"The most important impact is that trading ships have been transferred back to Guangzhou on a large scale, and trading manpower at various sub-stations has also been severely redeployed."

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"According to your report, despite the shortage of manpower and ships, the trade volume can still maintain positive growth. Before the meeting, the use of manpower and ships was not adequate. This time, the potential has been tapped in Guangzhou. ." Chen Xun didn't realize that he had become a leader that he hated very much in the future, and he always looked at problems in a very tricky way.

Ge Chang was also surprised by Chen Xun's perspective: "This..., your statement is quite novel!" He didn't know how to evaluate it for a moment.

"Actually, I think it should be the recruitment of a large number of local aborigines overseas to participate in management and the purchase of many new ships, which has maintained the positive growth of trade volume. Other potentials are not as great as you said." Ge Chang finally defended.

Otherwise, according to Chen Xun, wouldn't it become like "It turns out that two people can do the work of five people, but those five people were just playing and doing it at the same time?"

"Okay, as you said, you continue." Chen Xun didn't take it seriously. This kind of thing cannot be argued in detail.

With your subordinates, there is no benefit in arguing about winning or losing. The best effect is to just stick to the point.

Take this matter as an example. After Ge Chang returns, he will definitely focus on the efficiency of manpower utilization. This is the effect Chen Xun wants to achieve with his tricky questions.

"With the development of our military government's overseas branches, more and more management personnel are needed. This demand needs to be dispatched from the military government to solve it." Ge Chang continued.

The essence of this problem is really beyond Chen Xun's knowledge in his previous life.

When reading Ge Chang's report a few months ago, Chen Xun sighed, is it so easy to develop a colony?

No wonder those palm-sized countries in later generations were able to develop so many and large colonies.

To give a simple example:

Before Chen Jiazhuang sent ten people to the southeastern coastal area, these ten people could quickly recruit and control a hundred aboriginal elites, and then these elites would soon be able to manage thousands of aborigines.

Most of the surplus value generated by these indigenous people can be exploited by the ten people sent out by Chenjiazhuang.

The method of exploitation is very simple and crude. In addition to taxing the bottom aborigines, it is selling luxury goods produced on the mainland to the aboriginal elite.

Ceramics, silks, exquisite home furnishings, fine gold and silverware, sugar, wine, etc.

All kinds of luxury goods can drain the wealth of those elites and make them owe money.

Over the years, if Chen Xun had not been suppressing the development of overseas branches for fear of forming a situation of weak branches and weak branches, the scale of overseas branches would have reached more than ten times the current size.

Following the Chen Jiajun's uprising and occupying most of Guangzhou, Chen Xun became more confident and gradually relaxed his suppression of overseas branches.

This explosion is incredible!

No, even if Chen Xun redeployed people and ships from various overseas stations, their trade volume would still be higher than last year.

This kind of money is so easy to make.

As long as a certain amount of force is ensured and the indigenous people are not made to feel that "we can rob them," this kind of exploitation can always exist.

Moreover, the colonization of the Han people was not like the colonization of the West in later generations, which made the lives of the indigenous people in the colonies miserable.After the Han people passed by, not only could they make a lot of money, but they could also improve the lives of the local indigenous people. It was a win-win situation.

"Okay, I'll pick a few hundred people from the captive officials. You will bring them with you when you go back this time, and divide them along the way. It should be enough." Chen Xun complied with Ge Chang's request, because this request must be agreed, With fewer people, the colony can easily get out of control: "After these former Song court officials have passed, don't let them be in charge. The old people in our Chenjiazhuang must be in charge. They just need to work."

"I understand, as long as you can write and calculate, you will be regarded as a senior management talent overseas." Ge Chang was not picky about food, and he was very satisfied with the people Chen Xun gave him.

"Don't be too harsh on them. Give them all the salaries and benefits they deserve. After a year or two, assimilate them, select the best among them and transfer them back. Maybe they can take on the leading roles." Chen Xun warned.

They are all Han people, so we cannot let their lives be worse than those of the indigenous elites.

(End of this chapter)